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- GLC#
- GLC02437.08939-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 28 October 1747
- Author/Creator
- Shirley, William, 1694-1771
- Title
- to Samuel Waldo
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Discusses orders for a discharge of the majority of the troops under Waldo's command. States that he should only keep a few hundred that will be necessary for the defense of the garrison at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in Canada. Also mentions that he should have his junior officers collect all of the arms and accoutrements of the discharged soldiers and gives further instructions in regards to the discharged men.
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